Advanced Welding Systems

Delivering weld quality at a lower cost

Why Consider Advanced Robotic Welding?

An advanced robotic welding system lowers costs and improves quality, regardless of order size. It even improves safety and helps engineers create more innovative product designs.

No Minimum Order Size

Robots are flexible machines that can be easily reprogrammed and need minimal hard tooling. That means, there's little setup, making them practical for low-volume orders. Robotic welding even saves money on complex one-off assemblies, where the programming effort is repaid in faster welding and less risk of scrap. With fewer parts needed for setup, there’s more capacity for production.

Benefits

A robot moves faster and more consistently than a human welder. It gets into hard-to-reach places, never tires and never makes mistakes. Together, these mean an advanced welding system:

Custom - Robotic positioner weld cells

Let a positioning robot handle the repetitive job of loading and unloading so you can reassign human operators to quality-related jobs. This change lowers production costs, provides more repeatable quality and minimizes injury risks. It's a safer, faster way to handle products - including large, heavy and awkward parts

Manual load/unload time significantly reduced

No overhead assist required

Automatic gripper change for different parts

6 degrees of freedom

Reduce risk of injury

Typically lower cost for large weldments

Parts can be easily conveyed to and from the system reducing material handling in up and down stream production

Custom - Fixtureless weld cells

Combine handling robots with welding robots to eliminate the need for an operator to load/unload dedicated ﬁxtures used in traditional weld cells. Reduce costs and time spent buying, maintaining and storing ﬁxtures, and use a more efﬁcient footprint. Change over on the ﬂy and create one piece ﬂow, minimizing inventory and work in process for savings beyond traditional ROI calculations.

Reduced direct labor cost

Lights-out operation

Increased productivity and consistent output

Improved quality

Enhanced safety

Improved working environment

Creation of new and better jobs

Reduced/elimination of tooling

Minimal maintenance(no tooling to wear)

The Advanced Welding Solutions Company

Implementing welding robotics successfully demands extensive automation experience and a deep understanding of welding processes. Acieta has a long track record in welding automation, and expertise in building complete systems incorporating swing boom positioners, tilt/rotate tables and headstock/tailstock units.

Partnering with FANUC, one of world’s leading robotics manufacturers, gives Acieta access to a huge family of advanced robots. With machines able to reach more than 4.68 meters (15.35 feet) and carry 2,300 kilograms (5,070 pounds), there are advanced welding solutions to suit every manufacturer — large or small.

DISPELLING ROBOTIC MYTHS

Myth:

Robots steal American jobs.

Truth:

Automation is necessary to bring part cost down so American products are competitive with the rest of the world. When our products are competitive, manufacturing stays here and companies hire more people in better occupations. By keeping manufacturing here, higher skilled, higher paid jobs are required to operate, program and maintain these systems.